BIO

AIB award winning artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly live and work in Paris. They are exhibited worldwide, and are the only Irish artists to have had a solo exhibition in the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

They are Ireland’s foremost new-media artists, easily incorporating  innovative new technologies into their work,  to produce art that is both engaging and significant.

Much of Cleary & Connolly’s work is collaborative, with a strong socio-political aspect, both through its subject matter and in its engagement with people. They coined the term “observer participation” to describe their work, which is committed to affirming the active role of the public in art.

Exhibitions include: Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin (2012); The Barbican, London (2010); The Pompidou Centre, Paris (2009); Sesc Pompéia, Sao Paulo (2009); Yokohama Triennial, Japan (2005).

Far from fitting into a category, Connolly & Cleary’s work is constantly evolving in harmony with their lives, their environment, new technologies.  The dynamic architecture of their approach allows them to mingle events from their daily life with the fiction of their art. Their work is often inspired by fundamental questions of perception, relationships between movement, sounds, forms and colours. 

Thi Bich Doan. Past and Presence. Gandon Editions 2007

CURRICULUM VITÆ                                                     

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012   Hall of Mirrors. Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. 

2010   Pratiques. Pôle Culturel de Sorgues, Avignon, France.

           Still life with… The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland.

2009   Pourquoi pas toi? Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

2008   Moving Dublin. Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France.

2006   Here There Now Then. Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland. 

2005   Yokohama House Guests. Yokohama Triennial, Japan.

2004   RVB. Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France.

RECENT PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2012   One Small Step, One Giant Leap : Sallins National School, County Kildare.

           Look Both Ways Railway Procurement Authority, Dublin.

2011   Leap : Barbican Centre and City of London Academy, London, UK.

           On Sight : Mayo County Council, Ireland.

           Colour Wheels : University of Limerick, Ireland

           Joining The Dots: Kerry County Museum, Tralee, Ireland.

2010   Pratiques: Sorgues Cultural Centre, France.

           We Can Fly:  Department of Education/ St. Dymphna’s School, Ballina, Ireland

2009   Day 1 Today. School of Art and Design, Limerick University, Ireland.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011   Barbican Centre London and City of London Academy, ArtsFest 2011.

           Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin, Ireland

2010   Barbican Centre, London, Barbican Weekender.

           Crawford Gallery, Cork. July 23 – October 9. Close to Hand.

2009   Sesc Pompéia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sombras e Luz. 

2008   Solstice Art Centre, Navan, Ireland. 2Move Ireland.

2006   BBC Big Screen. Liverpool, UK.

           National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. Tina –B.

2005   Kilkenny International Art Festival. Ireland.

          Limerick City Art Gallery of Art, Ireland. EV+A.

           W139, Amsterdam, Holland. Global Tour.

TEACHING

Visiting examiners/lecturers at

École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Nantes, France.

Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Bergen, Norway.

National School of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland.

DIT School of Art, Design & Printing, Dublin, Ireland.

Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick, Ireland.

UFR Arts, philosophie, esthétique, Université Paris-VIII, St Denis, France.

L’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, France.

L'École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

2011   Arts Council Touring Award, Ireland.

2010   Arts Council Project Award, Ireland.

2009   AIB Award for Emerging Irish Artists of Exceptional Talent, Ireland.

2006   Ville de Paris, Aide à la Création, Paris, France.

2005   EV+A 2005 award, Limerick, Ireland.

2003   Best Documentary Film Prize, Kerry Film Festival, Ireland.

2002   Ville de Paris, Aide à la Création, Paris, France.

           Ville de Paris, Bourse d’Aide à la Réalisation, Paris, France.

2000   Moving Image Award, Cork Film Centre, Cork, Ireland.

COLLECTIONS

Cinémathèque Française; Auckland University; The Arts Council; South Dublin County Council; Limerick City Gallery of Art; École Nationale Supérieure, Paris La Villette;

Private collections in France, Ireland, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland.

PUBLICATIONS

2011 Edge °4  – Anne Cleary + Denis Connolly: In The Works. Ed. John O’Regan, Gandon

           Editions, Kinsale. Foreword by Helen O’Donoghue. ISBN 

2009 Moving Dublin – Anne Cleary + Denis Connolly: Ed. John O’Regan, Gandon Editions, Kinsale.

           Foreword by Frank McDonald.ISBN 978 0948037 696.

2007 Edge °2 – Anne Cleary + Denis Connolly: Past + Presence. Ed. John O’Regan, Gandon

           Editions, Kinsale. ISBN 978 0948037 511.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012   Cristín Leach Hughes, ‘Time to make an exhibition of yourself’, Sunday Times (Dublin)

           17/06/2012   pp.8-9

2011   Helen O’Donoghue, ‘Cleary & Connolly, sans frontières’, Irish Arts Review (Dublin), Winter

           2011  pp.80-81

2010   Sarah Finlay, ‘Still life with...’, Irish Arts Review (Dublin), vol. 27, no.2, pp.58-69

2009   Brian Dillon, ‘City report: Dublin’, Frieze (london), vol. 124, June-August, pp.180-81

           Donal Maguire, ‘AIB Prize 2009’, Irish Arts Review (Dublin), vol. 26, no.2, pp.65-66

           Frank McDonald, ‘Dubliners used to “life in the trenches”’, Irish Times (Dublin), 25th April

2008   Valérie Sasportas, ‘Les nouvelles manières de découvrir l’art dans les musées’, Le Figaro et

           Vous (Paris), 23rd December, no. 20030, cahier no.3, pp.1-2

2007 Paul O’Brien, ‘New-media art: an Irish context’, Circa (Dublin), no.120, p.36

2006 Karen Normoyle, ‘Here There Now Then’, Circa (Dublin), no.118, p.99

2005 Marc Mercier, ‘Difference, 4’39, une gaie anarchie’, Les Éditions Acharnistes (Paris), no.13

           Bénedicte Ramade and Manou Farine, ‘Image en Mouvement / Ultracontemporain’, L’Oeil,

           (Paris), March 2005

Aidan Dunne, ‘open EV+A review’, The Irish Times (Dublin), 22nd March, p.14

2004   Lucy Cotter, ‘The Migrant’s Perspective: Irish Artists in Mainland Europe’, The Arts Council

           An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Dublin, Critical reflection Award

Yann le Nagard, ‘BPM’, Le Journal des Écrans Documentaire (Paris), December

          Nathalie Stefanof, ‘Entretien avec Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly’, Parade 4, Revue d’art et de

           littérature de l’école d’expression plastique de la ville de Tourcoing (Tourcoing, Lille), November

2003 Annie Zimmerman, ‘Scènes du Boulevard’, Urbanisme (Paris), Nov-Dec, p.12